Friday, December 19, 2014

Long ago, during our childhood, we used to carry a thing
which was of utmost use to all of us going to school. It was something which
made its presence daily in our bags. Its contents were of utmost use to all of
us at different stages/lectures in our schooling life. I am referring to the
geometry ‘compass box’. The contents of this compass box had different use to
each one of us at different times.

A thought stuck to me that can we relate to the articles in
this compass with the life we live in. Can we draw some parallels from these
based on their characteristics and the way we use them. I have tried to draw
analogy of the components to our life.

Here is a take on the various components of the compass box
and philosophical or light hearted parallels in our life. This came out from a
thought that…what if each element had a story to tell which we can relate to
the way we live our everyday life. For some of us it will be vague, for some it
will be relative, for some it will be too philosophical and for someone it will
be just a read. Nonetheless, lets see what each element has to tell us about
life.

Pencil

No matter how
you are from outside, be what you are from the inside throughout. Not changing
yourself from start to end is the key.

One has to go
through lot of tribulations in life but tht will make a good person out of u

You can
always erase certain unwanted things out of ur life

Be the same
from start to end

You never
know what you got in you unless you bring it on paper

Eraser

Be the one
who can erase all sorrows / unwanted things in life

When you give
all of yourself to others, you can see them rewrite things

Be useful with what you have and what you can do

Ruler / Scale
–

No matter how
crooked the world is, be straight in life..

People will
rely on your ‘straightness’ for drawing lines in life

Sharpener -

You never
know what you have unless someone makes use of you to ‘sharpen’ their skills.
As a person moves on in his life drawing lines, he needs a point to pause and
add value to himself to sharpen himself. He has to come to you to do that.

Compass and
divider –

You need your
feet strongly grounded on ground to move places.

If your feet
are properly grounded , you know how much your reach it based on the radius of
your limitations

Set squares -

The fixed
angles of you add to the perspective on which one wants to draw lines onto. Few
look at life at a particular angle (say 45deg) and few at different (60 deg)
perhaps. But many also look at a mix and match of all the possibilities of
angles 45+30, 45+60 t explore life from different perspectives

Protractor –

You present
life in all possibilities, come and pick and choose the angle depending on your
requirement.

I present a
‘180 deg’ view of life. Choice is wide

These were
the components of the compass box aka Life. We need all of these components with the characteristics they present to make the 'geometry of our life' more meaningful. As they are useful during our school days, its characteristics can be useful during our entire life thus learnings from a compass box is like Encompassing our Life